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R. c. SORSOLEIL 2,126,931 azrm'ws FOR corqmnon'me AND CIRCULATING AIR 1 Aug. 16, 1938.-

Filed Sept. 22, 1937 I INVENTOR.

R-C ORSOLEIL BY F g a ATTORNEYS.

Patented Aug. 16, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE APPARATUS FOR CONDITIONING AND OIRCULATING AIR Raymond C. Sorsoleil, Seattle, Wash. Application September 22, 1937, Serial No. 165,125

3 Claims. (01. 126-110) ranged and constructed as to occupy a minimiunof space and that all parts thereof be arranged compactly together in one cabinet or housing. It is also important that a single mechanical means be provided for both inducting and educting a current of air to and from such cabinet, together with means for cleaning, cooling, or heating such air. In the heating of such circulating air it has been a practice to drive the air directly against an opposing face of some furnace or heating unit. This practice creates a back pressure or static condition and causes objectionable vibration and noise, particularly from. any driving fan and power means therefor.

It is therefore, an object of this invention to provide an air conditioning equipment in compact arrangement to occupy a minimum of space; and to project the current of air around the sides of a. heating unit, from a position in line approximately with the front of such heating unit, but

opposite each side thereof toward an unobstructed passage way around such furnace. Another object is to adapt for such apparatus parts of manufactured articles which can be obtained at small cost.

Another object is to extend the ordinary smoke fluefrom the ordinary furnace outward through the walls of such cabinet, without any joints to such flue within such cabinet, to thereby prevent .leakage of gases-within such cabinet, so that the air passed up into the dwelling shall be in the same pure condition as when drawn through proper filters in the front part of such cabinet.

With these and other objects to be hereinafter shown I have illustratively exemplified my invention by the accompanying drawing of which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cabinet with parts broken away, to show the interior. Figure 2 is a sectional view, taken on line 2-2 of Pi 1.

iike numerals on the different figures represent like parts. Numeral 3 represents the top or roof, while I and 5 represent the side walls and 6 represents the back wall. 1 represents a door mounted on hinges 8 which serves, when closed, as a front wall. The side and rear walls are preferably mounted on the ground floor 9, of the basement of any house. Any ordinary heater shown herein as a circular furnace I0 is positioned perpendicularly in the rear portion of the cabinet, but separated from the rear walls by a space II- and from the side walls by spaces l2 and I3. Any ordinary stoker or oil burners, indicated as I5, is suitably mounted on the floor 9 in front of the furnace for heating the same. My invention, however, does not depend on any special method of heating the furnace and during warm weather my system is used for cooling air and circulating the same in lieu of heated air.

A smoke flue I6 is made integral with, or rigidly aflixed to the upper portion of the furnace and extended outward through a'wall of a cabinet without any unions or joints inside thereof, thus is prevented the possibility of gases escaping through defective joints from the furnace flue within the walls of the cabinet which might be circulated within a dwelling. Air chutes shown in rectangular form as H and I8 for entrance and exit of air to and from the cabinet respectively are provided of any suitable length to ex-v tend to a dwelling above the cabinet and are preferably connected within rooms of different parts of the dwelling to insure good circulation therein.

In order to fully utilize all the space within the cabinetbetween the furnace and the door, such space is divided into upper and lower compartments or chambers l9 and 20 respectively by a middle floor 2| and a rear partition 22. The ends of such floor and partition are aflixed to the side walls and roof respectively in any ordinary manner, to prevent passage of air around such ends from the upper to the lower chamber. The door, when closed, fits snugly against the front edge of the floor 2|. Scroll shaped ducts 23 and 24, are mounted perpendicularly through the floor 2|, near the ends thereof respectively, and provided with nozzles 25 and 26 for discharging currents of air opposite to and through the passageways or spaces l2 and I3 respectively around each side of the furnace. Curved deflecing or discharging such air by pressure from said nozzles 25 and 26. Said shaft is rotated by any suitable motor as 3|, mounted on the floor 2|. The connecting wires therefor are not shown. The ends of the shaft are rotatably mounted in any suitable bearings indicated as 32 which are also supported on the floor 2|.

It will be understood that by the operation of the fans, the air from the dwelling will be drawn down through the chute i'l into the upper chamher and thence discharged through the ducts in the lower chamber around the furnace for heating the same and thence up through the chute ll without obstructions into the dwelling again for continuous circulation.

In order to maintain the air in clean healthful condition a suitable screen sheet 33 is stretched across the top of chamber l9, below the chute II. This screen may be of oil wool, or similar material, and may also be suitably medicated when desired. Suitable coils of pipes as 34 are also mounted in the upper portion of the chamber IQ for the circulation therein of any chilling fluid in warm weather for cooling the air when drawn thereover; Such coils may be also utilized for a circulating steam for warming the air about the same in the winter season, either in conjunction with or without heat from any furnace and particularly in the weather of medium temperatura' Simple means for supplying suitable humidity for the circulating air is provided by a pan 35 filled with water and supported on bracket rods 38 whichmay be hooked over the pipe coils 34 and thus provide for all contingencies.

Having described my invention I claim as new:

1. A compact apparatus forconditioning and circulating air for dwellings, comprising a cabinet, 'a heating furnace mounted in the rear portion of said cabinet in spacedrelation from the back and side walls thereof to provide passage ways for air from the front portion of said cabinet, a chute for the passage of air from the rear portion of the cabinet, a smoke flue tightly affixed to said furnace and projected outward through a wall of said cabinet, an elevated floor across the cabinet in front of said furnace to provide an upper and a lower chamber, a partition from the rear edge of said floor up to the top of said cabinet to enclose said upper chamber, an air chute projected from the top of said upper chamber, a pair of perpendicular scroll ducts projected through said floor, the upper ends of said ducts having intake mouths opening into said upper chamber, nozzles on the lower ends of said ducts directed backward in line with and in front of said passage ways and on each side of said furnace for discharging currents of air without obstruction around each side of said furnace in equal portions, fans rotatably mounted in the upper portions of said scroll ducts for drawing air therein and for forcing such air from saidnozzles, a motor for operating said fans mounted in said upper chamber, and burner means for heating said furnace mounted in said lower chamber between said nozzles, a door in front of said chambers to provide access to all such appliances when open and for separating such chambers when closed, and to prevent the entry of air at the said lower chamber except through such ducts and nozzles.

2. A compact apparatus for conditioning and noiselessly circulating air for a dwelling, comprising, a cabinet, a furnace for heating air mounted in the rear portion of said cabinet with passage ways around each side of and behind such furnace for free movement of air therethrough, a

- middle horizontal floor partition and a perpendicular partition from the rear edge of said floor, for separating the front portion of said cabinet into an upper enclosed chamber above a lower chamber, ducts extending from each end of the upper chamber into the said lower chamber, nozzles on the lower ends of said ducts directed backward in line with and in front of said passageways respectively along the sides of said furnace for discharging currents of air around said furnace, means for heating said furnace mounted in said lower chamber, a fan and motor for circulating such air mounted in such upper chamber and a chute for inducting air into said upper chamber.

3. A compact apparatus for noiselessly circulating air for a dwelling, comprising, a cabinet, a

, furnace for heating air mounted in the rear portion of said cabinet with passageways around each side of and behind such furnace for free movement of air therethrough, a middle elevated floor and a perpendicular wall partition for dividing the front portion of said cabinet into an upper enclosed chamber above a lower chamber, ducts extending from each end of said upper chamber into said lower chamber, nozzles on the lower ends of said ducts directed backward in line with and in front of said passageways re spectively along the sides of said furnace for discharging currents of air around said furnace, means for heating said furnace mounted in said lower chamber, and means for circulating such air, mounted in said upper chamber.

RAYMOND C. SORSOLEILQ 

